98-546: Petticoat Lane Market is a fashion and clothing market in Spitalfields , London. It consists of two adjacent street markets. Wentworth Street Market is open six days a week and Middlesex Street Market is open on Sunday only. It is one of a number of traditional markets located to the east of the City of London . A few hundred yards to the north is Old Spitalfields Market , which has been refurbished, and across Commercial Street, to
196-607: A blog called Spitalfields Life , writing under the pseudonym "The Gentle Author", and promising to post 10,000 daily essays. As of June 2020 , the writer had posted over 4,000 articles about life in Spitalfields, and the surrounding areas within walking distance. The economic makeup of Spitalfields is primarily centred around its four marketplaces. Old Spitalfields Market is the main one where traders sell antiques, food and fashion items, while Petticoat Lane Market mainly sells general clothing. Spitalfields has no connection to
294-424: A London cholera epidemic led The Poor Man's Guardian (18 February 1832) to write of Spitalfields: The low houses are all huddled together in close and dark lanes and alleys, presenting at first sight an appearance of non-habitation, so dilapidated are the doors and windows:- in every room of the houses, whole families, parents, children and aged grandfathers swarm together. In 1860, a treaty with France allowed
392-461: A Millionaire? in 2005. In January 2009, Fiona Bruce presented a BBC Two documentary entitled The Real Sir Alan . Also in 2009, Sugar appeared in television advertisements for investment bank NS&I and The Learning and Skills Council talking about apprenticeships. In May 2011, he presented Lord Sugar Tackles Football , a documentary looking into the financial woes of English football . In September 2012, Sugar appeared as himself in
490-558: A cameo in the Doctor Who episode " The Power of Three ". Sugar's cameo was filmed on the set of The Apprentice . In November 2012, he appeared as himself in a cameo in a special episode of EastEnders for Children in Need . Amsair Executive Aviation was founded in 1993, and is run by Sugar's son Daniel. As with Amstrad, the name Amsair is an acronym taken from the initials of Sugar's name " A lan M ichael S ugar Air ." Amsair operates
588-513: A commercial district where second-hand clothes and cheap goods were sold and exchanged, known as 'Peticote Lane'. This was also where the Spanish ambassador had his house, and the area attracted many Spaniards from the reign of James I . Peticote Lane was severely affected by the Great Plague of 1665; the rich fled, and London lost a fifth of its population. Huguenots fleeing persecution arrived in
686-432: A condition for appearing in the third series, Sugar placed a requirement that the show be more business-oriented rather than just entertainment and that he should be portrayed in a less harsh light, to counter his somewhat belligerent reputation. He also expressed a desire that the calibre of the candidates should be higher than those who had appeared in the second series (who had come across as manifestly lacklustre) and that
784-494: A debate over the BBC's political impartiality regulations in the run-up to the UK 2010 election, resulting in both Junior Apprentice and the sixth regular edition of The Apprentice being delayed. In May 2008, Sugar made an appearance on An Audience Without Jeremy Beadle to pay tribute to Jeremy Beadle as they were close friends and both appeared on a celebrity special of Who Wants to Be
882-428: A decline, but the market continued to prosper. Beginning in the 1970s, a new wave of immigration from India and east Asia restored the area's vitality - centred on nearby Brick Lane . In previous times the market was unpopular with the authorities, as it was largely unregulated and in some sense illegal. As recently as the 1930s, police cars and fire engines were driven down The Lane, with alarm bells ringing, to disrupt
980-443: A difficult time for the company. The launch of a range of business PCs was marred by unreliable hard disks (supplied by Seagate ), causing high levels of customer dissatisfaction and damaging Amstrad's reputation in the personal computer market, from which it never recovered. Subsequently, Seagate was ordered to pay Amstrad $ 153 million in damages for lost revenue. This was later reduced by $ 22 million in an out of court settlement. In
1078-448: A general importer/exporter and wholesale; by 1970 the first manufacturing venture was underway. He achieved lower production prices by using injection moulding plastics for hi-fi turntable covers, severely undercutting competitors who used vacuum-forming processes. In the mid 1970s manufacturing capacity was expanded to include the production of audio amplifiers, stereo cassette recording decks and AM/FM radio tuners. In most cases beating
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#17331071059971176-492: A large Cessna fleet, and one Embraer Legacy 650 with the registration G-SUGA, offering business and executive jet charters. Amsprop is a property investment firm owned by Sugar and is now controlled by his son Daniel. Simon Ambrose , winner of the 2007 series of The Apprentice , started working for Amsprop Estates after the series finished. However, in April 2010, he was reported to be leaving to start his own venture. Sugar
1274-467: A large cemetery with a mortuary chapel and stone charnel house . The chapel has been uncovered by archaeologists and preserved for public viewing. The priory and hospital were dissolved in 1539 under Henry VIII . At the time of the dissolution, the hospital had beds for 180 sick poor. The inner precinct of priory hospital was adjacent to the area that later became the Hamlet and parish of Spitalfields, in
1372-484: A large plate, and then send the lot, high into the air. Catching the construction on its way down was to demonstrate the skill of the vendor, and the robustness of the porcelain. A prominent businessman, Alan Sugar , got his start as a stall holder in the market. The market remains busy and vibrant, reflecting both its immigrant history and its continuing popularity with locals and tourists. Spitalfields Spitalfields ( / ˈ s p ɪ t əl f iː l d z / )
1470-504: A long spell on the sidelines during the 1993–94 season . He further stated that Sugar had refused to give him the five-year contract he wanted, as he had not believed Sheringham would still get into the Tottenham team when he was 36. Sheringham returned to Tottenham after his spell at Manchester United and continued to start for the first team until he was released in the summer of 2003, at age 37. Sheringham said that Sugar "lacked ambition" and
1568-430: A new Poor Law intended to fill the gap left by monasteries. Stepney was a very large and populous parish, and by the late 17th century it had devolved its civil parish functions to autonomous areas called Hamlets (in this context meaning territorial sub-divisions, rather than small villages), of which Spitalfields was one. In 1729, the Hamlet of Spitalfields became an independent daughter parish. The area's parish church
1666-464: A pair of 18th-century silk merchants' houses, onto which London practice 6a Architects added two contemporary galleries, it stands on the part of the street known until 1895 as Raven Row. Whitechapel Art Gallery is at the bottom of Brick Lane. Amongst the many well known artists living in Spitalfields are Gilbert and George , Ricardo Cinalli , Tracey Emin and Stuart Brisley . TV presenter, architecture expert and Georgian fanatic Dan Cruickshank
1764-462: A statistician at the Ministry of Education. In 1968, aged 21, Sugar set up Amstrad with £100 of Post Office savings. He started off selling radio aerials for cars and other electrical goods out of a van which he had bought for £50 and insured for £8. The name of the company was formed from his initials and the first four letters of the word ‘trading’: A lan M ichael S ugar Trad ing. It began as
1862-559: A take-over battle with Robert Maxwell for ownership of Tottenham Hotspur , Sugar teamed up with the club's manager Terry Venables and bought it in June 1991. Although his initial investment helped ease the financial troubles the club was suffering at the time, his treatment of Tottenham as a business venture and not a footballing one made him an unpopular figure among the Spurs fans. In Sugar's nine years as chairman, Tottenham Hotspur did not finish in
1960-559: A total of £69,000 to Labour or to leader Ed Miliband 's office, but the following year he defied party rules to implore the public to not vote for its candidate for London Mayor, Ken Livingstone . In August 2014, Sugar was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue . According to
2058-607: A tweet showing an edited image of Jeremy Corbyn in a car with Adolf Hitler . The incident occurred after Corbyn said the party "must do better" in resolving the party's problems with antisemitism . Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell had urged him to "delete and disown" the tweet. Sugar responded that he was "not the originator" and that "there is no smoke without fire in Labour". On 5 April 2018, Sugar published an ode critical of Jeremy Corbyn, and in December that year, he announced during
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#17331071059972156-604: Is a registered charity promoting public understanding of the Huguenot heritage and culture in Spitalfields, the City of London and beyond. They arrange tours, talks, events and schools programmes to raise the Huguenot profile in Spitalfields and to raise funds for a permanent memorial to the Huguenots. From the 1730s Irish weavers came, after a decline in the Irish linen industry, to take up work in
2254-407: Is a social project based in an area once an area fenced off and overgrown and is popular among a diverse range of people such as locals without gardens, and is made up of found materials, street art, sculpture and allotments. Nomadic Community Gardens is a temporary project or "meanwhile use" run by a private limited company on behalf of the property developer Londonewcastle, which leases the site to
2352-661: Is an area in London , England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It is in East London and situated in the East End . Spitalfields is formed around Commercial Street and Brick Lane . It has several markets, including Spitalfields Market , the historic Old Spitalfields Market , Brick Lane Market and Petticoat Lane Market . The area has a long attracted migrants from overseas, including many Jews, whose presence gained
2450-482: Is formed around Commercial Street (on the A1202 London Inner Ring Road ). Alan Sugar Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician, and political adviser. Sugar began what would later become his largest business venture, consumer electronics company Amstrad , in 1968. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in
2548-526: Is popular politically, and repeatedly urged the public to not vote for the eventual winner, Labour candidate Sadiq Khan . In 2016, Sugar endorsed the "Remain" campaign for the referendum on membership of the European Union . In May 2017, Sugar endorsed the Conservative Party at that year's general election . During a June 2017 radio interview with LBC's Nick Ferrari , Sugar was asked about
2646-536: The Evening Standard journalist Andrew Gilligan reported that Sugar had been approached to be the Labour candidate for Mayor of London in 2012. Sugar subsequently ridiculed the suggestion in an interview with The Guardian . During Prime Minister Gordon Brown 's cabinet reshuffle on 5 June 2009, the BBC reported that he would be given a life peerage and had been offered a job as the government's " Enterprise Champion ". On 7 June 2009, Sugar sought to clarify
2744-524: The Labour Party . The Spitalfields Neighbourhood Planning Forum , which is constitituted of Spitalfields residents, business operators, community organisations and other local interests, is intended to help local people influence neighbourhood planning policies. The Romans had a cemetery to the east of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare, which roughly follows the line of Ermine Street : the main highway to
2842-746: The London Underground . Historically it had a station on the Great Eastern Main Line called Bishopsgate (Low Level) that opened on the 4 November 1872, but closed on 22 May 1916. Shoreditch tube station , the northern terminus of the East London Line , technically lay within the boundaries of Spitalfields, but principally served Shoreditch : it closed in 2006. Liverpool Street station (mainline and underground), Aldgate East (underground) and Shoreditch High Street ( London Overground ) are all in close proximity to Spitalfields. The area
2940-587: The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney in 1900 and was abolished as a civil parish in 1921. It became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965. The area was part of the historic (or ancient) county of Middlesex , but military and most (or all) civil county functions were managed more locally, by the Tower Division (also known as the Tower Hamlets) , a historic ‘county within a county’, under
3038-532: The NHS . The screens use a Face detection system called OptimEyes to try to identify age and sex of its viewers. In July 2008, Amscreen purchased Comtech M2M, which was founded in September 1992, originally specialising in communications product retailing. This was before entering the M2M market in 1999. On 29 August 2008, Comtech M2M officially changed names to Amscreen Limited. On 7 March 2011, Sugar replaced Kip Meek on
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3136-463: The PenPad , a PDA , and bought into Betacom and Viglen in order to focus more on telecommunications rather than computers. Amstrad released the first of its combined telephony and e-mail devices, called the e-m@iler , followed by the e-m@ilerplus in 2002, neither of which sold in great volume. On 31 July 2007, it was announced that broadcaster BSkyB had agreed to buy Amstrad for about £125m. At
3234-602: The UEFA Europa League , Klinsmann decided to invoke an opt-out clause in his contract and left for Bayern Munich in the summer of 1995. Sugar appeared on television holding the last shirt Klinsmann wore for Spurs and said he would "not wash his car with it". He referred to foreigners coming into the Premier League at high wages as "Carlos Kickaballs". Klinsmann retaliated by calling Sugar "a man without honour", and said: "He only ever talks about money. He never talks about
3332-483: The curry capital of London. By 1981, at least 60% of households were of minority ethnic origin. Another development, from the 1960s onwards, has been a campaign to save the housing stock of old merchant terraces west of Brick Lane from demolition. Many have been conserved by the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust which has led to gentrification and a large increase in property prices. In
3430-635: The dissenting Huguenots, who had built ten chapels in the area. More humble weavers dwellings were congregated in the Tenterground . The Spitalfields Mathematical Society was established in 1717. In 1846, it merged with the Royal Astronomical Society. Spitalfields Market was established in 1638 when Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold in what was then known as Spittle Fields. The market currently receives around 25,000 visitors every week. Huguenots of Spitalfields
3528-486: The 2010 winner of The Apprentice . Sugar has criticised the US version of The Apprentice because "they've made the fatal error of trying to change things just for the sake of it and it backfired." In September 2020, it was announced that Sugar will be the new CEO on The Celebrity Apprentice Australia on Australia's Nine Network , replacing former CEO Mark Bouris . Young Apprentice ( Junior Apprentice in series 1)
3626-514: The 21st century, large office blocks were built between Bishopsgate and Spitalfields Market, affecting the character of the area. Conservationists secured the preservation of Old Spitalfields Market and the provision of shopping, leisure amenities and a plaza (urban square) beside the blocks, but permission was granted to developers, to demolish the Fruit and Wool exchange on the edge of old Spitalfields market, in order to erect office buildings. Since 1998
3724-601: The Abyss (1903), the journalistic memoir by Jack London ; Hawksmoor (1985) by Peter Ackroyd ; Rodinsky's Room (1999) by Iain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein ; Brick Lane (2003) by Monica Ali ; and The Quincunx (1991) by Charles Palliser . 19th-century Spitalfields is the setting for the film From Hell , a fictional retelling of the story of Jack the Ripper. In December 2009 an anonymous Spitalfields resident started
3822-536: The BBC in 2015, Sugar had donated £163,827 to Labour since Ed Miliband had become leader in 2010, but on 11 May 2015, four days after the Conservative Party won that year's general election , Sugar announced that he was leaving Labour. He issued a statement to say: In the past year I found myself losing confidence in the party due to their negative business policies and general anti-enterprise concepts they were considering if they were elected. I expressed this to
3920-464: The City, selling new garments. About 1830, Peticote Lane's name changed to Middlesex Street, to record the boundary between Portsoken Ward, in the City of London , and Whitechapel , which coincided with the Lane. But the old name continues to be associated with the area. From 1882, a wave of Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in eastern Europe settled in the area. The chapels, which had previously served
4018-566: The Huguenot community, were adapted as synagogues. Many Jewish relief societies were founded to aid the poor. Jewish immigrants entered the local garment industry and maintained the traditions of the market. The severe damage inflicted throughout the East End during the Blitz and later bombing in World War II served to disperse the Jewish communities to new areas. The area around Middlesex Street suffered
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4116-537: The Severs as an "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings has its headquarters nearby, at 37 Spital Square, a Georgian terraced house once inhabited by Huguenots and Russian Jewish leatherworkers. In 2009, Raven Row, a non-profit contemporary art centre, opened to the public at 56 Artillery Lane. Constructed in
4214-546: The area has formed part of the Spitalfields and Banglatown electoral ward. The name reflecting the areas strong links with Bangladesh. In September 2015, a demonstration against gentrification in London took the form of a protest at Cereal Killer Cafe , a hipster café on Brick Lane which serves cereal. Spitalfields has a very strong sense of local community, with the Spitalfields Community Group aiming to represent
4312-522: The area the 19th century nickname of Little Jerusalem . It was a Hamlet (autonomous area) of the large ancient parish of Stepney in Middlesex , and became an independent parish in 1729. Just outside the City of London , it formed part of the County of London from 1889 and was part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney from 1900. It was abolished as a civil parish in 1921. The name Spitalfields appears in
4410-484: The area was Lolsworth . The area was a part of the manor and ancient parish of Stepney before the Domesday Book of 1086. Parish areas originally had only ecclesiastical (church) functions; but the monasteries which had provided extensive charitable work on a voluntary basis, were dissolved by Henry VIII, creating increased hardship. The government responded by making parish areas take on civil functions, primarily
4508-509: The board of the BBC initiated IPTV project known as YouView (formerly known as Project Canvas ) which is also backed by ITV , Channel 4 and Channel 5 and broadband providers including BT and TalkTalk . Sugar was paid £500,000 for chairing YouView for the year ending March 2012. From 1997 until 2015, Sugar was a member of the Labour Party . In 2001, he was one of Labour's top 50 donors, giving £200,000 to its head office. In February 2009,
4606-516: The club for £22 million. In June 2007, he sold his 12% remaining shares to ENIC for £25 million, ending his 16-year association with the club. He described his time at Tottenham as "a waste of my life". Sugar later donated £3 million from the proceeds of the sale of his interests in Tottenham Hotspur to the refurbishment of the Hackney Empire in his native East End of London. Sugar became
4704-478: The company in a deal to BSkyB for £125 million. He was also the chairman and part-owner of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club from 1991 to 2001, selling his remaining stake in the club in 2007 as well, for £25 million. He is the host and "Boss" for the BBC Television reality competition series The Apprentice , which has been broadcast every year, with the exception of 2020 and 2021, since 2005. He also assumed
4802-595: The competition on price. In 1980, Amstrad was listed on the London Stock Exchange and during the 1980s Amstrad doubled its profit and market value every year. By 1984, recognising the opportunity of the home computer era, Amstrad launched an 8-bit machine, the Amstrad CPC 464 . Although the CPC range were attractive machines, with CP/M -capability and a good BASIC interpreter, it had to compete with its arch-rivals,
4900-564: The early 1990s, Amstrad began to focus on portable computers rather than desktop computers. Also, in 1990, Amstrad entered the gaming market with the Amstrad GX4000 , but it was a commercial failure, largely because there was only a poor selection of games available. Additionally, it was immediately superseded by the Japanese consoles: Mega Drive and Super NES , which both had a much more comprehensive selection of games. In 1993, Amstrad released
4998-584: The east, lies Brick Lane Market . A half mile further east is the Columbia Road Flower Market in Bethnal Green . Petticoat Lane Market was not formally recognised until an Act of Parliament in 1936, but its long history as an informal market makes it possibly one of the oldest surviving markets in Britain . The market is open Monday to Friday on Wentworth Street; on Sunday it extends over many of
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#17331071059975096-512: The form Spittellond in 1399; as The spitel Fyeld on the "Woodcut" map of London of c.1561; and as Spyttlefeildes , also in 1561. The land belonged to St Mary Spital, a priory or hospital (a lodging for travellers run by a religious order) erected on the east side of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare in 1197, from which its name is thought to derive ("spital" being a corruption of the word "hospital".) An alternative, and possibly earlier, name for
5194-456: The game. I would say there is a big question mark over whether Sugar's heart is in the club and in football. The big question is what he likes more, the business or the football?" Klinsmann re-signed for Tottenham on loan in December 1997. In October 1998, former Tottenham striker Teddy Sheringham released his autobiography, in which he cited Sugar as the reason he left the club in 1997. He said that Sugar had accused him of feigning injury during
5292-600: The garden operator for a peppercorn rent and provided start-up funding. Londonewcastle gained planning consent for a development of "affordable housing, townhouses and apartments" on the site in November 2015. Construction on the Fleet Street Hill Project was intended to commence in 2016 but, as of June 2019, no work has begun on the site. Dennis Severs' House in Folgate Street is a "still-life drama" created by
5390-569: The general election result. He said, "It's very, very surprising. I think I'd join a lot of people when I say the Theresa May and Conservative campaign was very lacking in what they were going to offer the public." He added that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "did a very good job wooing the young and educated people. I would add that those people who voted for him are quite bright and educated, but also not very experienced in life." On 31 March 2018, after complaints from Labour politicians, Sugar deleted
5488-464: The host of the BBC reality show The Apprentice , which has had one series broadcast each year from 2005, in the same role as Donald Trump in the US version . he fires at least one candidate each week until only one candidate is left. Until 2010, the winner was then employed in his company and since 2011 wins a partnership with Sugar, including his investment of £250,000 to establish their own business. As
5586-401: The import of cheaper French silks. This left the many weavers in Spitalfields, as well as neighbouring Bethnal Green and Shoreditch , unemployed and indigent. New trades such as furniture and boot making came to the area, and the large windowed Huguenot houses were found suitable for tailoring, attracting a new population of Jewish refugees drawn to live and work in the textile industry. By
5684-507: The late 17th century. The main local industry at that time was weaving, and many of the weavers were Huguenot refugees from France. Spitalfields' historic association with the silk industry was established by French Protestant (Huguenot) refugees who settled in the area after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. By settling outside the bounds of the City of London , they hoped to avoid
5782-412: The late 17th century; many settled in the area, and master weavers settled in the new town of Spitalfields . The area already had an association with clothing, with dyeing a local industry. The cloth was pegged out on hooks in the surrounding fields. These were known as tentergrounds . From the mid-18th century, Petticoat Lane became a centre for manufacturing clothes. The market served the well-to-do in
5880-458: The later 19th century, inner Spitalfields became known as the worst criminal rookery in London and common lodging-houses in the Flower and Dean Street area were a focus for the activities of robbers and pimps. In 1881 Flower and Dean Street was described as being "perhaps the foulest and most dangerous street in the metropolis". Another claimant to the distinction of being the worst street in London
5978-678: The leadership of the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets (the post was always filled by the Constable of the Tower of London) . The military loyalty to the Tower meant local men served in the Tower garrison and Tower Hamlets Militia, rather than the Middlesex Militia. The role of the Tower Division ended when Spitalfields became part of the new County of London in 1889. The County of London
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#17331071059976076-406: The market and sell it back to you at the other." In Tudor times, Middlesex Street was known as Hogs Lane, a pleasant lane lined by hedgerows and elms. It is thought city bakers were allowed to keep pigs in the lane, outside the city wall; or possibly that it was an ancient droving trail. The lane's rural nature changed, and by 1590, country cottages stood by the city walls. By 1608, it had become
6174-467: The market for silk. The riots ended in an Irish and a Huguenot weaver being hanged in front of the Salmon and Ball public house at Bethnal Green . Price controls on amounts master weavers could pay journeymen for each piece were established, removing incentives to pay higher wages during good times. During bad times workers had no work. As the price was per piece, there was no incentive for using machinery, as
6272-423: The market. The rights of the market were finally protected by Act of Parliament in 1936. As late as the 1990s, if Christmas Day fell on a Sunday (which in that decade only occurred in 1994), many of the local Jewish traders would still assert their right to open on a Sunday. 'The Lane' was always renowned for the 'patter' and showmanship of the market traders. Some, selling crockery, would pile an entire setting onto
6370-402: The master weavers controlling the silk industry, and grand urban mansions built around the newly created Bishops Square which adjoins the short section of the main east–west street known as Spital Square. Christ Church, Spitalfields on Fournier Street , designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor , was built during the reign of Queen Anne to demonstrate the power of the established church to
6468-542: The master would have to pay for the machine and still pay the same price per piece to journeymen. By 1822 labour rates were so above market labour rates, that much of the employment in silk manufacture had moved away. Remaining manufacture focussed on expensive fashion items, which required proximity to court and had higher margins. In 1729, Spitalfields was detached from the parish of Stepney , and became an independent parish; by this time parish areas had both civil and ecclesiastical (church) functions. The area's parish church
6566-493: The more graphically complex Commodore 64 and the popular Sinclair ZX Spectrum , not to mention the highly sophisticated BBC Micro . Despite this, three million units were sold worldwide with a long production life of eight years. It inspired an East German version with Z80 clone processors. In 1985, Sugar had another major breakthrough with the launch of the Amstrad PCW 8256 word processor which retailed at over £300, but
6664-399: The most senior figures in the party several times. I signed on to New Labour in 1997 but more recently, particularly in relation to business, I sensed a policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for. By the start of this year I had made my decision to resign from the party whatever the outcome of the general election. Before the 2016 London mayoral election , Sugar said that he
6762-463: The motives of the candidates for participating are scrutinised more carefully, given that certain candidates in previous series had used their successful experience in the show as a springboard to advance their own careers (as occurred with Michelle Dewberry , the winner of the second series, who left Amstrad's employment only eight months after taking up the job). In September 2013, Sugar lost his Employment tribunal counter-claim against Stella English,
6860-576: The next season with just three points from their opening three games. Sugar next appointed George Graham , a former player and manager of bitter rivals Arsenal. Although Graham won Spurs' first trophy in eight years, fans never warmed to him, partly because of his Arsenal connection, and disliked the negative, defensive style of football which he had Spurs playing; fans believed it was not the "Tottenham way". In February 2001, after speculation and confirmation on 11 December 2000, Sugar sold his majority stake at Tottenham to leisure group ENIC , selling 27% of
6958-457: The non-political nature of his appointment. He stated that he would not be joining the government, that the appointment was politically neutral, and that all he wanted to do was help businesses and entrepreneurs. On 20 July 2009, he was made Baron Sugar , of Clapton , in the London Borough of Hackney . He made his maiden speech in the House of Lords on 25 November 2009. In 2011, Sugar donated
7056-453: The north from Londinium. The cemetery was noticed by the antiquarian John Stow in 1576 and was the focus of a major archaeological excavation in the 1990s, following the redevelopment of Spitalfields Market. In 2013, Janet Montgomery of Durham University undertook lead isotope analysis of tooth enamel , identifying the first person from Rome known to have been buried in Britain. She
7154-485: The people who both live and work, this is to build a better sense of community as well as improve the quality of life of its members and their neighbours in Spitalfields. and the Spitalfields Music who strengthen the local community through musical events. The Spitalfields Housing Association also works closely with residents by providing good quality community services. A community garden, Nomadic Community Gardens,
7252-537: The prize fund to 17-year-old Arjun Rajyagor. Tim Ankers finished in second place. The second series started in October 2011, and featured eight episodes and twelve contestants. The series was won by Zara Brownless, with James McCullough as runner-up. Originally proposed in March 2008 and confirmed in June 2009, Junior Apprentice received mostly positive reviews from critics. Sugar's role under Gordon Brown 's government sparked
7350-638: The restrictive legislation of the City guilds . The Huguenots brought with them little, apart from their skills, and an Order in Council of 16 April 1687 raised £200,000 to relieve their poverty. In December 1687, the first report of the committee set up to administer the funds reported that 13,050 French refugees were settled in London, primarily around Spitalfields, but also in the nearby settlements of Bethnal Green , Shoreditch , Whitechapel and Mile End New Town . The late 17th and 18th centuries saw an estate of well-appointed terraced houses, built to accommodate
7448-465: The role for The Celebrity Apprentice Australia for Australia's Nine Network in 2021. Sugar was elevated to the House of Lords in 2009 as a Labour peer and was one of the party's biggest donors, but left the party in 2015 and subsequently expressed support for the Conservative Party . According to the Sunday Times Rich List , Sugar became a billionaire in 2015. In 2021, his fortune
7546-456: The silk trade. The 18th century saw periodic crises in the silk industry, brought on by imports of French silk – in a lull between the wars between the two rivals; and imports of printed calicos . The depression in the trade and the prices paid to weavers led to protests. In 1769, the Spitalfield riots occurred when attempts were made to disperse protest meetings by weavers during the downturn in
7644-456: The special jurisdiction of the Tower of London as one of its Tower Liberties . Other parts of the priory area were used for residential purposes by London dwellers seeking a rural retreat and by the mid-17th century further development extended eastward into the erstwhile open farmland of the Spital Field. Spitalfields consisted mainly of fields and nursery gardens until its development in
7742-416: The surrounding streets, with over a thousand stalls. It is closed on Saturday, and on Sunday closes at about 2 pm. The markets are well signed from local stations. Petticoat Lane market is listed as a tourist attraction on VisitLondon.com, the official visitor guide for London. The name Petticoat Lane came from not only the sale of petticoats but from the fable that "they would steal your petticoat at one end of
7840-419: The time of the takeover, Sugar commented that he wished to play a part in the business, saying: "I turn 60 this year and I have had 40 years of hustling in the business, but now I have to start thinking about my team of loyal staff, many of whom have been with me for many years." On 2 July 2008 it was announced that Sugar was standing down from Amstrad as chairman, to focus on his other business interests. After
7938-617: The tiny extra-parochial area called the Liberty of Norton Folgate . Although the chapel and monastic buildings were mostly demolished in the time of Henry VIII, the Liberty remained an autonomous area outside of any parish. The adjacent outer precincts, to the south, were re-used for artillery practice by the gunners of the Tower of London . The area, known as the Old Artillery Ground was placed under
8036-464: The top six in the league and won just one trophy, the 1999 League Cup . After being sacked as the club's chief executive by Sugar in 1993, Venables appealed to the high courts for reinstatement. A legal battle for the club took place over the summer, which Sugar won (see Re Tottenham Hotspur plc [1994] 1 BCLC 655). The decision to sack Venables angered many Tottenham fans, and Sugar later said, "I felt as though I'd killed Bambi ." In 1992, Sugar
8134-536: The vote. During negotiations, Sugar called Sky CEO Sam Chisholm and angrily ordered him to "blow [ITV] out of the water" with a much higher bid. In 1994, Sugar financed the transfers of three stars of the 1994 FIFA World Cup : Ilie Dumitrescu , Gica Popescu , and most notably Jürgen Klinsmann , who had an excellent first season in English football, being named FWA Footballer of the Year . Because Spurs had not qualified for
8232-611: Was Christ Church, Spitalfields , with St Stephen Spitalfields (demolished in 1930) added later. In 1855, the parish became part of the Whitechapel District within the Metropolitan Board of Works area. Spitalfields Vestry nominated twelve members to the Whitechapel District Board of Works. The Board of Works was an unelected body, responsible for certain infrastructure functions. Spitalfields became part of
8330-503: Was Christ Church, Spitalfields , with St Stephen Spitalfields added later. The church of St Stephen Spitalfields was built in 1860 by public subscription but was demolished in 1930. The adjacent vicarage is all that remains. By the Victorian era , the silk industry had entered a long decline and the old merchant dwellings had degenerated into multi-occupied slums. Spitalfields became a by-word for urban deprivation, and, by 1832, concern about
8428-499: Was Dorset Street , which was highlighted by the brutal killing and mutilation of a young woman, Mary Jane Kelly , in her lodgings here by the serial killer, Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888. The murder was the climax of a series of murders that became known as the Whitechapel Murders . The renewed focus on the area's poverty helped prompt the decision to demolish some local slums in 1891–94. Deprivation continued and
8526-412: Was Peter Shreeves , who replaced Venables in 1991, followed by the dual management team of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence in 1992, former Spurs midfielder Osvaldo Ardiles in 1993, and Gerry Francis in 1994. In 1997, Sugar surprised the footballing world by appointing the relatively unknown Swiss manager Christian Gross . Gross lasted nine months as Spurs finished in 14th place in 1998 , and began
8624-433: Was a 25-year-old woman, buried in a lead-lined stone sarcophagus around the middle of the 4th century A.D., and accompanied by grave goods of jet and glass . In 1197, a priory , The New Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate , latterly known as St Mary Spital , was founded by Walter Brunus and his wife Roisia, and built on the site of the cemetery. It was one of the biggest hospitals in medieval England and had
8722-447: Was a British reality television programme spin-off in which a group of twelve young people, aged 16 and 17, competed to win a £25,000 prize from Sugar. The six-part series began on BBC One and BBC HD on 12 May 2010, and concluded on 10 June. It featured Nick Hewer and Karren Brady as Sugar's advisors. Brady made her debut on Junior Apprentice ; it aired before she appeared on the adult version. The programme concluded with Sugar awarding
8820-493: Was an active campaigner for Spitalfields, and continues to live in the area. Writer Jeanette Winterson turned a derelict Georgian house into an organic food shop, Verde's, as part of the Slow Food movement. Spitalfields figures in a number of works of literature, including A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed (performed 1610–14; printed 1632) by William Rowley , a dramatisation of the foundation of St Mary Spital; The People of
8918-408: Was brought to notice by social commentators such as Jack London in his The People of the Abyss (1903). He highlighted 'Itchy Park', next to Christ Church, Spitalfields, as a notorious rendezvous for homeless people. In the late 20th century the Jewish presence diminished and was replaced by an influx of Bangladeshi immigrants, who also worked in the local textile industry and made Brick Lane
9016-597: Was estimated at £1.21bn, ranking him as the 138th-richest person in the UK. Alan Michael Sugar was born on 24 March 1947 in Hackney , East London , into a Jewish family . His father, Nathan, was a tailor in the garment industry of the East End . His maternal grandparents were born in Russia , and his paternal grandfather was born in Poland . Sugar's paternal grandmother, Sarah Sugar, was born in London to Polish parents . When Sugar
9114-457: Was hypocritical. As an example, Sugar asked him for recommendations of players; when Sheringham suggested England midfielder Paul Ince , Sugar refused because he did not want to spend £4 million on a player who would soon be 30. After Sheringham left Spurs, Sugar approved the signing of Les Ferdinand , aged 31, for a club record £6 million, on higher wages than Sheringham had wanted. Sugar appointed seven managers in his time at Spurs. The first
9212-504: Was replaced by Greater London in 1965. Nearly all (except a tiny area north of the railway, in Weaver's Ward) of the district is part of the Spitalfields & Banglatown ward, which elects two councillors to Tower Hamlets Borough Council . Spitalfields is in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Rushanara Ali of
9310-705: Was still considerably cheaper than rival machines (such as the Apple Macintosh Plus, which retailed at $ 2,599). In 1986, Amstrad bought the rights to the Sinclair computer product line and produced two more ZX Spectrum models in a similar style to their CPC machines. It also developed the PC1512 , a PC compatible computer, which became quite popular in Europe and was the first in a line of Amstrad PCs. In 1988, Stewart Alsop II called Sugar and Jack Tramiel "the world's two leading business-as-war entrepreneurs". The 1990s proved
9408-435: Was the only representative of the then "big five" ( Arsenal , Everton , Liverpool , Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur) who voted in favour of Sky 's bid for Premier League television rights. The other four voted in favour of ITV 's bid, as it had promised to show big five games more often. At the time of the vote, Sugar's company Amstrad was developing satellite dishes for Sky, though Sugar had declared this prior to
9506-565: Was the owner (and Chairman of the board) of Viglen Ltd, an IT services provider catering primarily to the education and public sector. He resigned his position on 1 July 2009. Following the sale of Amstrad PLC to BSkyB, Viglen was Sugar's sole IT establishment until its sale to XMA in 2014. Sugar is Chairman of Amscreen, a company run by his son Simon, specialising in selling advertising space on digital signage screens that it provides to retailers, medical centres and leisure venues. Apprentice winner Yasmina Siadatan worked there, selling into
9604-460: Was young, his family lived in a council flat . Because of his profuse, curly hair, he was nicknamed "Mop head," a name that he still goes by in the present day. He attended Northwold Primary School and then Brooke House Secondary School in Upper Clapton , Hackney, and made extra money by working at a greengrocers. After leaving school at the age of 16, he worked briefly for the civil service as
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